The Pugwash Newsletter
Issued by the Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Volume 40 - Number 1
June 2003

• Avoiding an India-Pakistan Nuclear Confrontation
  Pugwash Meeting no. 280
  Lahore, Pakistan, 12-14 March 2003
  
  
• 19th Workshop of the Pugwash Study Group on the Implementation of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions:
  The Fifth BTWC Review Conference
  Pugwash Meeting no. 281
  Oeestgeest, Netherlands, 26-27 April 2003
  
  
• 2nd Pugwash Workshop on South Asian Security
  Pugwash Meeting no. 282
  Geneva, Switzerland, 16-18 May 2003
  
  
• Pugwash Workshop: Preserving the Non-Weaponisation of Space
  Pugwash Meeting no. 283
  Castellon de la Plana, Spain, 22-24 May 2003
  
  
• 9th Pugwash Workshop on The Middle East
  Pugwash Meeting no. 285
  Amman, Jordan, 30 May - 2 June 2003
  
  

ACTIVITIES OF NATIONAL PUGWASH GROUPS

• Pugwash Argentina: Regional Pugwash Workshop on Economic and Social Inequities in Latin America
  Pugwash Meeting no. 284
  Barlioche, Argentina, 29 May - 2 June 2003
  
  

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT/YOUNG PUGWASH

OBITUARIES
– Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
– Thomas Odhiambo
– Vsevolod Avduyevsky

EDITORIAL

• A Challenge to the World's Scientists
  by Kofi Annan, Secretary-Geberal of the United Nations
  
  

Members of the Pugwash Council

Calendar of Future Meetings

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Pugwash Newsletter Vol.40 No.1, June 2003